Are you about "pure" technical demonstrations or demoscene productions? 😀

wbc wrote:

Are you about "pure" technical demonstrations or demoscene productions? 😀

Anything to see what a 286 or a 386 could have done with some great coding techniques. 😀

For 16 MHz 286, VGA and Gravis Ultrasound, PC demo, Legend by Impact Studios.

The Legend demo was quite impressive, considering it could be run on a 286.
Other demos you could also look at are Future Crew's Unreal, Panic & Second Reality (although, the latter was actually meant to be run on a fast 486). These demos will run on a fast 386 PC, but they do slow down if you also run it with a Sound Blaster at 20 KHz. This is where you will benefit from having a Gravis Ultrasound.

How about full-motion video with audio on an 8088? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdG413nNkI

Yeah, not quite the time period you're looking for, but still damn impressive. I don't know of any others off the top of my head specifically for the 286/386, but now you got me curious! I'll have to poke around after work to see what I can find.

Triton's Crystal Dream will run on a 286, and Crystal Dream 2 will run on a 386.
I recall Majic 12 also doing some nice 386 stuff.
Then there's UltraForce's Vectordemo, which is fine on a 286.
And some of the Cascada productions should also run nicely on a 386 at least.
Oh, and Renaissance is also worth checking out.

The first commanche games had also a impressive graphics for it's time. Remember seeing it for the first time on a 80386 back in the day. And couldn't believe that it was an actual game and not a demo.

I have captured a few old dos demos in my youtube channel.
However you can also get good quality here ftp://78.46.141.148/videos/ (but no description)
If you look for the actual binaries go to www.pouet.net